Nashville Predators: Always understated, they get Viktor Stalberg and Matt Hendricks. They’ll fit right in with the well coached, if offence starved, Predators.

Mike Komisarek: The ex-Leaf defenceman found a new life with Carolina, where ex-Leafs have a history of rebuilding their careers.

Phil Kessel: His roommate and best friend Tyler Bozak gets a big raise with the Leafs and now, apparently, can afford to pay rent.

Ottawa Senators: It started off as a bad day when they lost their captain, Daniel Alfredsson, to the Red Wings. Clarke MacArthur didn’t seem like much of a replacement, but the big trade for Bobby Ryan from Anaheim makes up lost ground.

Phoenix Coyotes: They’re still in Phoenix and now they have Mike Ribeiro, everybody’s favourite second-line centre.

Ryane Clowe: How he got five years out of New Jersey is anyone’s guess.

Dominic Moore: Classy good-guy gets back to NHL with Rangers.

Chicago Blackhawks: Unlike Bruins, they retained a few players.

Joey Crabb: Grinds out another NHL contract, this time with Florida.

Mikhail Grabovski: He got married.

It was was a bad day for:

Tampa Bay Lightning: They’re paying Vincent Lecavalier $32 million not be their second-line centre while deciding to pay Valtteri Filppula $25 million to be the second-line centre. Goodness gracious. Did Steve Yzerman learn anything in Detroit?

Ray Emery: Should be a great comeback story, but he’s now a Philadelphia goalie. When was the last time a Philly goalie had a good day?

Boston Bruins: Ference, Horton, even the backup goalie left. The team is being dismantled and they’re not doing much to keep it together . . . but they did finally land Jarome Iginla

Vancouver Canucks: Pressed up against the salary cap, they don’t have a lot of room to manoeuvre.

Anaheim Ducks: Signed Saku Koivu out from under the noses of . . . the Anaheim Ducks. This after surrendering Ryan for a package from Ottawa that will be good in three or four years.

New York Islanders: It started off as a good day, adding decent forward Pierre-Marc Bouchard and re-signing Evgeni Nabokov. But then they went and gave seven years to Travis Hamonic. Ask yourself, of all the players getting seven years, how far up anybody’s list of likely candidates was Travis Hamonic?

St. Louis Blues: Lost every bidding war they were in, and now the vultures are circling restricted free agent Alex Pietrangelo.

Philadelphia Flyers: They managed to end the day over the salary cap.

George Richards Big and Tall in Montreal: Daniel Briere? Really? Another little guy?

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